Lalita

'Lalita' movie artwork (Image source: ଛାୟା ପ୍ରତିଛାୟା ୨୦୧୬ by Film Journalists' Forum)

Released on: 01 December 1948 at Capital Cinema, Cuttack

Story, Dialogues & Direction: Kabichandra Kalicharan Patnaik
Produced by: Gourendra Pratap Singhdeo

Production Co: Great Eastern Movietone
Distribution: Vibrotik Distributors
Production-in-Chief: Brindaban Mohapatra
Technical Adviser: Kalyan Gupta
Management: Loknath Mishra
Production Manager: Pankaj L. Nanda

Editing: Baidyanath Chatterjee, Kalyan Gupta
Art: Banshi Chandragupta
Make-up: Tinikori Adhikari

Cinematography: Prakash Digpal
Choreography: Anadi Prasad

Audiography: N. Banerjee

Stills: Roshan Lall
Processed at: Bengal Film Laboratory Pvt. Ltd.
Produced at: Bengal National Studios
Lyrics: Kabichandra Kalicharan Pattnaik
Music: Gaur Goswami, Suren Paul
Cast: Lokanatha Mishra, Giridhari Panda, Uma Goenka, Sumati Devi, Pankaj Nanda, Damodar Das, Krushna Jena, Brindaban Mohapatra, Chandra Sekhar Mishra, Jadumani Kanungo, etc.
Genre: Mythological

'Lalita' ad published in Nabeen magazine (Image credit: Surya Deo)

Booklet of 'Lalita' (Image credit: Surya Deo)

Note: Lalita is the first Odia movie released post independence. It is the second Odia film released

after a span of twelve years from the first Odia film, Sita Bibaha. Makhanlal Banerjee was the hero of the first Odia film while his wife Uma Banerjee played the role heroine the second movie Lalita.

Plot: King Indradyumna completed a Temple at Puri, but cant find the living deity Nila Madhaba (Lord Jagannath). he send messengers in all directions to bring him the news about Lord Nila Madhaba.

One Brahmin messenger Bidyapati comes across a Savara village in the dense forest and stays there as guest to the Savara King Biswabasu. Bidayapati gets the hearsay about Biswabasu, who, secretly keep the lord Nila Madhaba in a remote cave and worships. Bidyapati pretends to falls in love with Biswabasu's daughter Lalita and finally marry her. Lalita persuades her father to show her husband, the Lord. Biswabasu agrees and takes Bidyapati to the remote secrete cave. Bidyapati plans to take the deity to Puri, but the deity vanishes at last.

Reference: Wikipedia, Surya Deo, Surya Deo, IMDB